After the match ended, several arena guards expressionlessly escorted Ye Chuan, who had lost, out of the venue.
Meanwhile, Rebecca, the victor, walked into the competitors' passage backstage in a daze, amid the crowd's still-malicious boos.
She still could not understand what had just happened.
Yet as her mind wandered, a nauseating voice suddenly drifted out of the shadows in the passage.
"Eh hehehe, what a disobedient little girl."
"You actually won the match. That's not quite the script Doffy prepared for us."
Rebecca whipped her head around.
A tall, slovenly man in a yellow coat, leaning on a trefoil scepter, had appeared behind her at some point.
It was Trebol, one of the Donquixote Family's top officers!
"What do you want?!"
Rebecca instinctively raised her sword.
"What do I want? Eh hehehe..."
Trebol let out a cloying laugh and swung his scepter sharply, sending a stream of corrosive mucus shooting toward Rebecca!
"To dispose of a disobedient toy like you for good, of course!"
But just as the deadly mucus was about to strike her!
Shing-!!!
A cold, pitch-black flash of sword light swept past from the side without warning!
The mucus, potent enough to melt steel, was effortlessly cleaved in two by that flash!
"Who's there?!"
Trebol was horrified!
The next moment, the black-haired man wearing the Crow Mask, who should have left long ago, appeared before him like a phantom.
Ye Chuan did not even give him a chance to react. He swung the Black Blade Shusui in his hand again.
Slash!
Trebol's true body, seemingly massive but actually scrawny, was beheaded by a single stroke of Ye Chuan's sword!
``` [Detected that the host has killed Trebol, a top officer of the Donquixote Family...]
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